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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Roger Lancelyn Green, Lewis Carroll

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avamoon's review against another edition

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2.0

I literally fell asleep every time I picked up this book

sara_evaney's review against another edition

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2.0

First off: This is such a pretty book! Seriously!
But well, about the Content.. I liked Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Throug the Lookingglass, I finished that in like two days.
Bruno and Sylvie was pretty hard to read and I had no idea what was going on for most of the time.
And that is actually a pretty good summary of the entire book: Hard to read and what's even going on?
Some of the poetry was nice, some I didn't understand at all, and most of the time I was thinking: Seriously?! Because Carroll is just so crazy. I don't know what he was thinking or if he was thinking at all while he was writing.
And then there's the math stuff. Yeah, I'm not horrible at math, but I'm not great either and I just skimmed over most of those sections because I was so confused. And so many times there wasn't even a Point in anything he said.
That was the part where I almost gave up. But I always finish books! I always do and I wouldn't let this be an exception, so I just waited a couple days, read three other books and came back to it.
Luckily by then the math section was pretty much over and I got to some weird letters and rules for games. That wasn't necessarily interesting, but at least it was easier to read.
So Overall the only Thing I actually liked was Alice and the Looks of the books and I'm very glad I'm through it!